Geology: because sometimes your office looks like this

[kaberett]

[Mountainscape; the Grossglockner is in the background to the right of the image, and the Dolomites are in the background to the left.]

... only with better colour balance, naturally.

And, do you know, that rather makes up for the days and weeks of rain and mud and darkened rooms with only the hum of the microscope for company.

One of the other benefits is that nobody asks you to look at dead things unless they're millions of years old.

(Mostly, of course, your office contains a desk and a computer and you end up dreaming wistfully of the volcanoes you're studying, but somehow we make do.)

(Don't get me started on the coral palaeontologists, though.)

Comments

[mfb]

Can I envy you and celebrate with you at the same time? I had a Moment on the highway out here, as I looked around, was absolutely confused for a few seconds, then realized I had completely forgotten what mountains looked like in my years away.

[kaberett]

Yes, always. <3

(I am maybe narrowing down PhD programme options based, er, on whether there's a sensible skyline visible.)

Orogenous Zones

[hairyears]

Having spent a couple of days in the Rockies, I have decided that I like mountains.

We could do with more of them in Enfield.